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authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>2013-02-04 15:33:44 -0600
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-02-11 18:44:41 +0100
commitb7566fc363e23f0efd3fa1e1460f9421cdc0d77e (patch)
tree2a9c044f8771292ef942cdeab9b0636d676140d8
parent78f42aee884dedfd157f79d01f069550edbc95cf (diff)
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cfg80211: Fix memory leak
When a driver requests a specific regulatory domain after cfg80211 already has one, a struct ieee80211_regdomain is leaked. Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/reg.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c
index 6ea626b30a2a..08d3da2c70ab 100644
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -2189,10 +2189,15 @@ static int __set_regdom(const struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd)
* However if a driver requested this specific regulatory
* domain we keep it for its private use
*/
- if (lr->initiator == NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER)
+ if (lr->initiator == NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER) {
+ const struct ieee80211_regdomain *tmp;
+
+ tmp = get_wiphy_regdom(request_wiphy);
rcu_assign_pointer(request_wiphy->regd, rd);
- else
+ rcu_free_regdom(tmp);
+ } else {
kfree(rd);
+ }
rd = NULL;